Choosing ending mechanics *SPOILERS*

[Gregram]

Only I had an issue with understanding what to do? First time I tried to attack alien lady but couldn't so I went with joing her. During second attempt my finger sliped on gamepad stick and then I realised that there is an option to select between good and bad ending. Rest of the game had superb design but this one was terrible. Still great game.

[magickmynd]

I also had a bit of trouble selecting which ending I wanted. I wanted to try both, just to see what they were, but every time I kept attacking the dark lady. The ending makes sense if you put together the information that you get from the secret story doors that you unlock with your leveled up swords and see what it is she is try to tell you, even if she doesn't speak english.

From what I can understand the race of people that the player character comes from left their home planet for some unknown reason. Either it was dying, running out of power, there was some kind of calamity, etc, I'm not 100% sure. They left their home or planet and had a colony exodus to a new planet. It appears they crash landed there and started taking over and colonizing the planet, turning it into a giant machine, incorporating nature and technology. However, it appears there was already a native species there.

The native species either felt like or knew they were being invaded and saw the reconstruction of the planet into a machine as either heresy or destruction of the natural order. The native species fought back and created the corruption to attack the machine people, destroying a vast majority of their colonizing opperation and halting any further progress.

During that time machine sentinels were sent out to find individuals with the ability to combat the corruption. This has failed many times before, as is evidenced by the fact that there are all of those ancient, rusted husks around with sword fragments.

There was even a case before where a selected champion joined with the native forces to serve their queen rather than fight to eliminate her. So the two endings are kind of a grey area. On the one hand you have the supposed "good" ending, where you fight the corruption and release the remaining colonists to finish converting the planet, and everything looks green and happy.

Then there is the "bad" ending, where you decide to join forces with the "dark" queen and your robot companion goes looking for another champion to combat the corruption. Personally I have a hard time deciding between the two endings as to which one is the actual "good" ending.

On the one hand you have a native species who is fighting back against unnatural invaders trying to defend their home and be at peace with nature, whearas on the other hand you have a technologically advanced species fleeing their home, either because of natural causes or destruction of their own creation, to find a new home. Either to learn from their mistakes and become closer to what they feel like symbiosis with nature should be, or just to recreate the world to what they knew from their original home.

I think both endings have a lot of merit and reasons to go with either one and I found the entire game to be really awesome for the price and considering I had never heard of it before stumbling across it on one of the let's play channels I frequent. For an Indie game I have never heard of before I felt like the entire thing was fantastic.